# Marcus Lowe

> Marcus Lowe is a San Francisco technology founder and the co-founder and CEO of Anything, an AI app-building company that turns plain-language requests into working web and mobile products. After undergraduate research at the MIT Media Lab and product roles at Google Maps, Lowe built recruiting software at Resource before starting Create with longtime friend and former Google colleague Dhruv Amin. The pair bootstrapped their first model to meaningful revenue, then shut it down and rebuilt around AI agents. Anything subsequently raised an $11 million Series A at a reported $100 million valuation and grew to serve more than one million users.

- **Role:** Co-Founder / CEO at Anything
- **Organizations:** Anything, Create, Resource, Google, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Anything from the earlier Create product and marketplace., Helped bootstrap the initial business to about $1 million in revenue before institutional fundraising., Helped lead a high-risk 2023 pivot away from a business producing roughly $2 million annually toward AI agents.

## Career timeline

- **2011-2014** — Worked as an undergraduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab while studying at MIT.
- **2012** — Completed a software engineering internship at Google.
- **2013** — Worked as a Google Associate Product Manager intern.
- **2014-2017** — Joined Google full time, first as an Associate Product Manager and then as a Product Manager working on Google Maps.
- **2017-2020** — Led product and worked as a senior software engineer at Resource, a recruiting software company later acquired by Gem.
- **2021** — Co-founded Create with Dhruv Amin and began with a code-generation system and developer marketplace.
- **2022** — The founders reported bootstrapping the business to about $1 million in revenue and raising outside capital.
- **2023** — After the business reached roughly $2 million in annual revenue, Lowe and Amin chose to shut down its marketplace model and rebuild around AI agents.
- **2024** — Launched the text-to-app product Create at create.xyz, expanding from components toward databases, authentication, and payments.
- **2025-08** — Relaunched Create as Anything, an all-in-one agent for building and shipping web and mobile apps.
- **2025-09** — Anything announced an $11 million Series A led by Footwork at a reported $100 million valuation and launched the autonomous Anything Max agent.
- **2026-07** — An E2B case study reported that Anything was serving more than one million users and running thousands of isolated coding environments in parallel.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Anything from the earlier Create product and marketplace.
- Helped bootstrap the initial business to about $1 million in revenue before institutional fundraising.
- Helped lead a high-risk 2023 pivot away from a business producing roughly $2 million annually toward AI agents.
- Relaunched Anything in August 2025 and announced an $11 million Series A the following month at a reported $100 million valuation.
- Co-created Anything Max, an agent designed to test apps in a browser, diagnose bugs, and iterate autonomously.
- Helped grow Anything to more than one million users by July 2026; a later Claude customer story reported 1.5 million users and more than 800,000 apps built in five months.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — E2B published a case study identifying Lowe as CEO and describing Anything as serving more than one million users with thousands of concurrent coding sandboxes.
- **2026-03** — A Claude customer story said Anything served 1.5 million users, with more than 800,000 apps built in five months and a reported 91-96% agent success rate.
- **2025-12** — Anything moved from createanything.com to anything.com after acquiring the one-word domain.
- **2025-09** — Anything announced an $11 million Series A led by Footwork at a reported $100 million valuation and released Anything Max.
- **2025-08** — Lowe and Amin launched Anything as the successor to Create, combining web and mobile generation with databases, payments, authentication, integrations, hosting, and app-store submission.

## Links

- Website: https://www.anything.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-marcus-lowe
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/failingbuild
- GitHub: https://github.com/marcusglowe
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@anythinguniversity

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Last updated: 2026-08-18